Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon of the nativity of our Lord preached before the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-house on Christmas Day, 1686 / by Thomas Godden.

Godden, Thomas, 1624-1688
Publisher: Printed by Henry Hills
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1686
Approximate Era: JamesII
TCP ID: A42901 ESTC ID: R28640 STC ID: G921
Subject Headings: Christmas sermons; Jesus Christ -- Nativity; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 5.4% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.9% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 86.2% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 3.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.8% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 4.2% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.1% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 3.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 2.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 2.1% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 1.2% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 2.1% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent citation, and italicized foreign text 1.7% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP, an adjacent matching citation, and italicized foreign text 1.2% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.903
Evenness: 0.988
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 6.712
Old Testament (Vulgate) 6.651
New Testament (Tyndale) 6.645
Apocrypha (AKJV) 3.776
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.525
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.964
Old Testament (Geneva) -1.601
New Testament (Geneva) -2.725
New Testament (ODRV) -2.804
Old Testament (AKJV) -3.713
New Testament (AKJV) -4.094
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.995
Book Prominence
Luke (Tyndale) 7.92
Susanna (AKJV) 4.335
Luke (Vulgate) 4.219
Psalms (Vulgate) 4.182
John (Wycliffe) 4.172
2 Peter (Tyndale) 4.09
Wisdom (AKJV) 4.032
Philippians (Geneva) 3.93
1 Timothy (AKJV) 3.64
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 3.6
Luke (Geneva) 3.449
Romans (Tyndale) 3.361
Luke (ODRV) 3.356
John (ODRV) 3.292
John (AKJV) 3.164
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 3.158
Luke (AKJV) 3.15
Psalms (ODRV) 3.137
Romans (ODRV) 3.097
Psalms (Geneva) 2.533
Romans (AKJV) 2.505
Psalms (AKJV) 1.567
Diversity: 0.962
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Luke 2 (Tyndale) 7.112
Psalms 2 (Vulgate) 3.569
Wisdom 18 (AKJV) 3.568
Psalms 4 (Vulgate) 3.566
Susanna 1 (AKJV) 3.564
Luke 2 (Vulgate) 3.56
Psalms 4 (ODRV) 3.555
John 1 (Wycliffe) 3.551
Psalms 148 (AKJV) 3.547
Psalms 45 (Geneva) 3.541
Luke 1 (Tyndale) 3.54
Luke 2 (Geneva) 3.531
Luke 2 (ODRV) 3.53
1 Corinthians 9 (ODRV) 3.526
John 14 (ODRV) 3.501
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 3.501
Romans 15 (ODRV) 3.489
Romans 1 (ODRV) 3.48
2 Corinthians 4 (Geneva) 3.473
Romans 7 (AKJV) 3.466
John 6 (AKJV) 3.465
Luke 2 (AKJV) 3.462
Romans 1 (AKJV) 3.459
Philippians 2 (Geneva) 3.449
John 6 (ODRV) 3.428
1 Timothy 6 (AKJV) 3.416
Romans 13 (Tyndale) 3.405
Diversity: 0.964
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
Luke 2.7 (ODRV) 8.816
Luke 2.12 (Tyndale) 5.88
Susanna 1.13 (AKJV) 2.941
Luke 2.15 (Vulgate) 2.941
Luke 2.15 (ODRV) 2.941
Wisdom 18.14 (AKJV) 2.941
Luke 2.17 (ODRV) 2.941
Luke 2.12 (AKJV) 2.94
Luke 2.20 (Geneva) 2.94
Psalms 2.9 (Vulgate) 2.94
Luke 1.35 (Tyndale) 2.94
Luke 2.8 (AKJV) 2.939
Psalms 45.6 (Geneva) 2.939
John 6.33 (AKJV) 2.939
Psalms 148.10 (AKJV) 2.939
Psalms 4.3 (Vulgate) 2.939
Psalms 4.3 (ODRV) 2.937
John 1.10 (Wycliffe) 2.937
1 Corinthians 9.21 (ODRV) 2.937
John 6.51 (ODRV) 2.936
Romans 1.23 (AKJV) 2.936
Romans 7.22 (AKJV) 2.935
2 Corinthians 4.6 (Geneva) 2.934
John 14.6 (ODRV) 2.934
1 Timothy 6.17 (AKJV) 2.93
Philippians 2.7 (Geneva) 2.93
Luke 2.14 (ODRV) 2.929
Romans 1.21 (ODRV) 2.925
Romans 13.5 (Tyndale) 2.924
Romans 15.13 (ODRV) 2.918
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.908
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
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The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Numbers 7.662
Philippians 7.343
1 Timothy 7.253
Exodus 6.976
Job 6.848
John 5.885
Luke 5.873
Isaiah 5.709
Romans 5.136
Matthew 4.911
Psalms 3.919
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Chapter Prominence
Psalms 1 9.818
Psalms 59 4.98
Psalms 138 4.967
Numbers 24 4.967
Job 17 4.959
Exodus 2 4.955
Psalms 44 4.931
Psalms 36 4.918
John 9 4.876
Isaiah 9 4.864
Psalms 4 4.841
Luke 2 4.787
1 Timothy 1 4.77
Psalms 2 4.732
John 14 4.722
Philippians 2 4.672
Matthew 7 4.638
Romans 1 4.558
Matthew 5 4.444
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Psalms 138.11 7.142
Psalms 36.31 7.142
Luke 2.15 7.14
Psalms 44.8 7.139
Psalms 4.3 7.134
Psalms 2.9 7.132
Matthew 5.24 7.131
Numbers 24.17 7.13
Romans 1.23 7.129
1 Timothy 1.9 7.125
Matthew 7.14 7.114
Philippians 2.3 7.111
John 14.6 7.107
Isaiah 9.6 7.074
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase